new york city has the 17th largest economy in the world. if new york city were a country it would be the 17th largest national economy in the world. you unplug that and everybody hurts. whether you live in manhattan or new jersey or live in idaho. if you do not feel it yet where you live, wait a minute because it's coming. we've known this disaster was coming. for the one in five americans who live somewhere on an american coast near the sea, weird weather and rising seas have been almost a scheduled nightmare. we knew this was coming. we knew that storms like sandy will keep coming and maybe with increasing frequency. once that threat stops being too scary to consider and it starts being a river in your street or in your house, then all that stuff that has seemed inexorably mired and esoteric ideological political fights is no longer esoteric. it's no longer partisan. in yonkers, new york, the mayor there rationed gasoline to stop people from clogging the roads in yonkers. the mayor said no more of that. yonkers has a ten gallon limit per